Ex Uno Plura is a blog with the goal of exploring arguments and ideas that are new and a bit cutting edge. Some of the topics that are explored include recent developments in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, machine learning, evolutionary adaptation, atheism (and its discontents), technology and the humanities, literature and literary theory, and a raft of other topics that register as experimental. The goal is to always try to do justice to the topic and contextualize it socially and as part of intellectual history.
Note that the title might be a translation mistake. I have conflicting information on this; maybe it should be Ex Uno Plures (“out of one, many (people)”) but others concur with Ex Uno Plura (“out of one, many (things)”). At least it’s not as bad as some of the other guesses floating around, including a title by David Foster Wallace. Update via Giacomo Miceli:
I can confirm you it’s “Ex uno, plura”. Plura => Neutral noun (more things, many things) vs Plures => Numeral adjective (more, several).
My name is Mark Davis and I am an entrepreneur, computer scientist, and author. I split my time between homes in Portland and on the Oregon coast. My background ranges from an unusual upbringing in New Mexico, to teaching in the US Peace Corps, to running a performance art group, to working for Microsoft and XeroX PARC, and, recently, to startups in computational linguistics, big data analytics, and machine learning. I’ve got a graduate degree in the latter. I retired in 2015 from a role as a CTO and Distinguished Engineer at Dell Software Group following the sale of my startup company, Kitenga, one of the first big data analytics companies.… Read the rest